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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Table-lookup Chinese speaker
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 23:26:14 GMT
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In article <1992Jan24.193202.9713@aisb.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>Look, do you want a test for understanding, or a test for whether
>someone is in a room that also contains a clock and some recent
>newspapers?

Try reading my post before replying to it.  The paragraph in question said
nothing about clocks and recent newspapers.  It was making the point that
simulating the teletyped conversations of a hermit in a cave is far from
simulating the whole of human intelligence; it's not even my idea of
passing the original Turing test.


